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I actually set my Reolink frame rate to just 15 FPS here, and you can see that the footage is a bit choppier than the Ring footage. To show this further, you can see my car drive off. As long as you’re not using these to record sport, both of these are reasonable enough frame rates. Going back to the two cameras, Ring tends to record at 20-24 FPS whilst the Reolink camera defaults to 25 FPS. Generally speaking, recording at 24-30 FPS is fairly standard in many cases, whereas sport and action footage is often recorded at 60 FPS. If the FPS is too low, everything will seem quite choppy – and fast-moving detail (such as a car driving by quickly) might not be captured properly. This is also called FPS (frames per second), and it refers to how many individual images – or frames – make up a video each second. I also mentioned the frame rate in my intro. This can be a worry for crime detection if you only have Ring cameras, since you might not always be able to make out great detail – unless the person is very near the device. The Reolink camera captures this reasonably well – especially as I move closer to the camera – but the Ring camera struggles to show any real detail. To give a specific example, here you can see me holding a Dremel multi-tool box at different points.

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This is another reason that the image quality is better on the Reolink camera – the bit-rate is 4-8 times more than the Ring camera (although this is partly to be expected, because 4K video should naturally have a higher bit-rate than full HD video due to the extra detail that’s capture). I’ve spoken about this topic more in a previous video, but the main thing to know is that Ring’s bit-rate is usually between 1 and 2 megabits per second, whilst this Reolink camera records at 8 megabits per second. In-fact, full HD video CAN look better than 4K video if the bit-rate is better on the full HD video. A 4K video with a terrible bit-rate will look… well, like this. And it’s actually THIS that determines the image quality. One of the other things I mentioned in my intro was bit-rate, a measure of how “compressed” a video is, essentially. But of course, a wide angle lens can be very helpful for a security camera, so Reolink’s choice of lens here can be both a benefit and a disadvantage. And that’s the first key point here – Reolink’s image quality isn’t superior to Ring’s image quality purely due to the 4K resolution it’s also because less of the scene is captured, meaning the detail isn’t diluted. It then records the scene in 4K resolution, which gives the captured items quite a lot of detail. A wide angle lens with a low capture resolution doesn’t always make much sense.Ĭonversely, Reolink use a “normal” lens (and by “normal” I mean one that isn’t wide-angle, nor is it a zoomed-in telephoto lens).

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Ring captures a lot of a scene – due to their wide-angle lens – but then it’s only 1080p resolution, meaning that the recorded detail is almost watered down – or diluted. You can clearly see the difference in how much of a scene is captured by both. Ring’s doorbells and cameras use wide angle lenses – meaning that they capture a lot of the scene. I’m actually filming this video on a 16mm wide angle lens because this is a fairly small room, and with a “normal” lens you wouldn’t see too much of me. The wide angle lens captures more of a scene, which is very useful for a security camera of course, but it can also sometimes lead to a weird fishbowl-type effect.

One is a “normal” lens – which they call a 1x zoom lens – and another is a 0.5x “wide angle” lens. Many smartphones now have multiple rear camera lenses – including my Samsung S10 which has three. Well, let’s discuss the lens first of all. But why did I also mention the bit-rate, lens and frame rate? We all know that 4K is better than full HD, and you can clearly see in the intro that the Reolink cam has better image quality than the Ring Floodlight. Right, so the Reolink 810A camera is a 4K, 8 megapixel camera. Reolink were kind enough to send me their RLC-810A camera for me to test, but this is a fully independent video – I’m not being paid to say nice things about Reolink’s products. So I’m going to take a look at all this in this video. But of course, it’s not just the resolution that matters, it’s also the bit-rate, the lens that’s used, and also the frame rate. In today’s video I’m going to be comparing one of Reolink’s 4K cameras, with the Ring Floodlight Cam Plus, which records in full HD. Hello, I’m Tristan from Smart Home Point. Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Why Everyone Needs a 4K Smart Cam (Reolink Vs Ring Image Quality Compared) ()